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Create Channels for Your Wii Games (Alt.dol games Included)

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-How To Play USB Games From The Wii Menu

This guide will show you how to play Wii backups stored on a USB device OR SD Card, right from the Wii menu. This is Very Useful for kids or for games that you play often. I have noticed a few people asking how to create channels for ALT.dol games so I have included all the necessary steps in the guide. Very Simple!

WBFS Drives --Forwarder Channels

You need to create the "common-key.bin" file and copy it to the Loadstructor folder.

You can make one easily using "MakeKeyBin.exe" contained within the WiiScrubber Folder.

LoadStructor Folder Screen Shot

Creating The Forwarder Wad With Loadstructor

*You Will Need a WBFS Partition for this to work* See Below for FAT/NTFS Drives*

1. Connect your Drive to your PC and open Loadstructor. Select the button "Add From WBFS", A window will pop up, select the letter of your WBFS drive and click "LOAD".

Your games should now show as a list. For this Guide I will use Red Steel (First One) as an example of how to make a forwarder channel for an alt.dol game. For a list of Alt.dol games see the end of this post.

2. Choose the game you want to make a forwarder for and select "Add ISO".

The first window will return and should list the game you picked under "ISO files List"

3. At the bottom of the window you will see "Output Folder". This is where your wads will be saved. Change the path if you want.

Note: If your game does NOT use an alt.dol then SKIP Step 4 and move to Step 5.

4. You will see a check box that says "Alternate.DOL". Make sure that box is checked or this will not work. (You don't need to change any of the other options)

5. Click RUN! Wait for it to do its thing and you can exit when it has finished.

6. Navigate to the "output folder" that you selected earlier, and copy the .wad file to the "WADS" folder on your SD card.

Extracting the alt.dol with WiiScrubber

Note: If your game does NOT use an alt.dol then move ahead to "Installing The WAD"

Now that our wad file is made we need to extract the alt.dol from our ISO. You will need a copy of the ISO on your computer for this part.

7. Open WiiScrubber and select "Load ISO". Open the ISO you are making the channel for. (Red Steel In my case).

8. Expand the partition (+/- buttons) and look for the alt.dol your game uses (I'm looking for red steel.dol). To find out what alt.dol you need to extract see below, if your game is not listed below please let me know.

9. When you find it, Right Click and select extract. Select the folder you want, and save it.

Exit WiiScrubber.

10. Navigate to the alt.dol you extracted and rename it to the first 4 letters of your game ID. Mine will be renamed REDE.dol, because the game ID is REDE41.

You MUST Create a folder on the root of your SD card called "usb-loader". Then Move the renamed .dol file to that folder.(This is where the channel will look for the alt.dol so it NEEDS to be there or it won't work).

Installing the WAD

*Before installing any Wad you should have Priiloader installed*
Put your SD card in your Wii and open The Homebrew Channel

Load Wad Manager and select IOS249 to install.

Navigate to your wad file and Press A to Install.

Wait -- Exit wad manager and the HBC. When you return to the wii menu you should see a channel for your game. Make sure your Drive and SD card are plugged in before trying to use the channel.

I recommend backing up ANY wad you install on your PC for easy uninstall later on.

You should now have a working Forwarder channel for your alt.dol game on your Wii Menu!

NOTE: Wii Motion Plus Games only require an Alt.dol for watching the Motion Plus Video. That is why these games aren't included in the ALT.dol list. Channels for these games can be made WITHOUT using the ALT.dol method. (After watching the WMP Video) An Example of these games -- Red Steel2 and Wii Sports Resort.

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EXTRA

If you use these options -- Do them AFTER Step 4 And BEFORE STEP 5.For SD card Loading (Vs USB) -- Change the "Boot From"Option in the Drop Down Menu, to "SD"

Out Of Region Games -- Change the "Video Mode" Option

Changing Language -- Change the "Language" Option

Changing the cIOS -- If the game uses 222 or 223 use the "cIOS" Drop down menu.

- - - - - Some games Require Certain Settings or Fixes -- Please See the Problem Games Thread

madden nfl 08 freezes after loading alternative dol when run as wii channel

I bought madden nfl 08 from the largest auction store of the internet. I was able to run it from my usb hdd via usb loader gx (usb loader gx running from wii channel or homebrew channel) with the following game load setting:
1) alternative dol = maddens.dol
2) 002 fix = yes (NOT anti-002 fix).

When i tried to create a wii channel for it (with alternative dol checked), it freezes when i run it. I tried it with both check and unchecked anti-002 fix and it freezes with both. It freezes after loading the alternative dol (sd-card:\usb-loader\RNFE.dol). The indicator light on the wii remote is steady on the first light unlike when I used to have problems when running/loading it from usb loader gx which causes the 4 lights to keep blinking when it froze.

I also applied iospatcher (it has the same version of ios21). it still freeze(none of the buttons on the unit or remote function.

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Okay, the guide has been updated with more info added. If anyone has any issues please let me know, tested this myself and it works with the 2 alt.dol games I own. (Tested when written... and after update)

I have also tested the 222 and 223 options to run certain games. (cIOS drop down menu)

CFG forwrder. I eliminated GX when I went to fat32. I can't get my .wbfs to load though, had to use an iso file. Now i have to convert the games I want SMG, SMG2, MK and NSMB2 back to iso for them to load, LOL. I just converted them to.wbfs, and deleted the iso from my pc earlier today.